| Mexican dessert recipe staples include chocolate, | | | | sapote is also known as a custard apple and the flesh |
| vanilla and cinnamon. Fruit is also a popular ingredient to | | | | tastes creamy and a bit like chocolate. The black |
| use and Mexicans love to use fresh produce in both | | | | sapote is a close relative to the persimmon but not |
| their savory Mexican recipes and in Mexican desserts | | | | related to the white sapote. |
| recipes too. | | | | Recipe for Spiced Mexican Fruit Salad |
| Fruit is a great dessert ingredient if you want to make | | | | This wonderful and simple recipe combines Mexican |
| something healthy. You can use it to make pies, cakes, | | | | fruits with lime juice, orange juice, chili powder and |
| fruit salads and much more. If you can find some | | | | tequila for a really flavorful and stunning Mexican |
| Mexican fruits, you can make authentic Mexican | | | | dessert recipe. This makes enough fruit salad for eight |
| desserts. | | | | people. |
| Famous Mexican Fruits | | | | You can use any fruits you like in this Mexican fruit |
| Mango, prickly pear, guavas and pomegranate are | | | | salad and it is a nice idea to choose tropical ones. Try |
| popular fruit ingredients for Mexican desserts and you | | | | papaya, kiwi, watermelon or cantaloupe. Leave out the |
| have probably tasted some or all of these, in Mexican | | | | tequila if you prefer or if you are making this for |
| cuisine or another. There are also some other fruits | | | | children. You can also leave out the sugar if you like. |
| that you might encounter in Mexican recipes for | | | | What you will need: |
| desserts, like soursop. Soursop is green-skinned with a | | | | - 1 cup pineapple chunks |
| creamy tasting white flesh. It is often found in tropical | | | | - 2 cups mango chunks |
| markets but rarely anywhere else. There are lots of | | | | - 4 cups halved strawberries |
| black seeds in the pulp. | | | | - 2 cups melon chunks |
| Mamey fruit is another and this brown skinned fruit has | | | | - 1/4 cup sugar |
| a very sweet orange-colored flesh. Loquats have soft | | | | - 1/4 cup tequila |
| orange-colored flesh and about four seeds inside. | | | | - 1/4 cup lime juice |
| Loquats are native to Asia but also found in Central, | | | | - 1/2 cup orange juice |
| South and North America and Mexico. Cherimoya is | | | | - 1 teaspoon dried ancho chili powder |
| oval in shape and has white flesh with many seeds. All | | | | - 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| of these fruits are common in Mexico but it can be | | | | How to make it: |
| hard to find them in other places. | | | | Stir all the fruit together in a bowl, then add the other |
| The blossom of the coffee tree looks and smells quite | | | | ingredients and mix well. Chill the Mexican fruit salad for |
| like jasmine. The coffee tree fruit takes nine months to | | | | an hour or more before serving it. You can serve this |
| ripen and can be used to make Mexican desserts | | | | fruit salad alone or with a dollop of good quality vanilla |
| recipes. Sapote fruits come in black or white. A white | | | | ice cream. |